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We had quite a lot of discussion on the debian-project mailing list about changing the irc.debian.org CNAME to point at irc.oftc.net instead of irc.freenode.net. My early tally of public opinions went something like:

13 people expressed support for moving to oftc
3 people did not want to move
22 people expressed no strong preference either way
1 person thought we should use Jabber instead of IRC

I've had numerous other suggestions privately, via mail and (of course) IRC, in roughly similar proportions. On the strength of this support, we have decided to make the suggested move. The necesssary DNS changes will go ahead on the 4th of June.

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Re: Moving irc.debian.org
Sam Morris wrote on Tue, 23 May 2006 00:18

I also think a Jabber server should be set up for debian.org. Jabber services could relay activity between, say, gnome@conference.debian.org and the corresponding channels on both IRC networks.

Re: Re: Moving irc.debian.org
Steve wrote on Tue, 23 May 2006 14:58

IIRC there was a jabber.debian.net already set up. If you'd like to see such a thing working, please bring it up on debian-project...

Re: Moving irc.debian.org
Marcos Dione wrote on Tue, 23 May 2006 14:53

does this mean the server will be running in a different IRC network?

Re: Re: Moving irc.debian.org
Steve wrote on Tue, 23 May 2006 14:58

Yes, it'll be on OFTC rather than Freenode.

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